⛰️ High Stile

806 m · Wainwright — Western Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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806 mWainwright — Western Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+6 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

High Stile at 807m (2,648ft) is the highest of the three great Buttermere summits — High Stile, High Crag and Red Pike — a ridge that Wainwright described as offering one of the finest ridge walks in western Lakeland, with Buttermere and Crummock Water visible throughout. The summit gives outstanding views of Pillar, Great Gable and the Ennerdale fells to the south-east, and the dramatic drop to Bleaberry Tarn to the north. The classic ascent from Buttermere via Scarth Gap and High Crag is excellent, returning via Red Pike and Scale Force for a superb full day's circuit.

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits — detour to them on this walk and they are pure profit. Distances are straight-line; allow extra for terrain.

0.3 km EHigh Stile (Grey Crag - High Stile)806 m · Western
1.0 km NNWDodd (Buttermere)641 m · North Western
2.0 km WNWLittle Dodd (Ennerdale)590 m · Western
2.3 km SESeat561 m · Western
2.5 km SPillar Rock780 m · Western
2.9 km NEHigh Snockrigg526 m · North Western

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over High Stile (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Buttermere village (NT, paid) — 2.3 km from summit (straight line)
For Red Pike, High Stile, Robinson, Rannerdale Knotts.
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Gatesgarth Farm, Buttermere (paid) — 2.6 km from summit (straight line)
Farm car park at the foot of Haystacks, Fleetwith Pike and the High Stile ridge.
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Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 77 / 77A “Honister Rambler”
Keswick – Portinscale – Hawse End (Catbells) – Grange – Seatoller – Honister Pass – Buttermere – Lorton – Whinlatter – Keswick (circular)
Catch it from: Keswick (connect via 555 from Windermere/Ambleside or X4/X5 from Penrith)
Seasonal (roughly Easter–October). Brilliant for the North Western fells: Catbells, Dale Head from Honister, the Buttermere fells and Whinlatter.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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